Our story
Jo grew up in the Vale of Glamorgan and Jon in Surrey. We met at university in Nottingham, where our faith came alive, and got married a few years later in Penarth. We spent many years in London, with Jon working as a management consultant, before training for ordination in the Anglican Church serving for several years at King’s Cross Church (KXC). Jo worked in prison ministry and a range of mental health settings before going on to complete a doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
All the while, a call back to Wales, to Cardiff, and to Canton kept growing. Some of it was obvious and some of it was harder to explain: prophetic words, dreams, and a sense of direction that wouldn’t fade away. So in November 2024 we moved to Cardiff in faith, to put down roots, pray, and listen well to all that God is already doing in this city.
St Francis has grown out of that. It’s a new church in and for Canton, led by Jon and Jo, sent from KXC and part of the TABLE family of churches. Since autumn 2026 a small group has been meeting every week to pray and lay foundations. We can’t do this alone, and we don’t want to. We long to see the whole church in Cardiff flourish, and we’re so thrilled to be neighbours to the many wonderful churches already serving this city.
Oversight and relationships
St Francis will be registering as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and, as such, will have trustees to ensure the organisation is run in line with its charitable objectives. Until that point, St Francis sits within the accountability and financial structures of King’s Cross Church.
We are part of the TABLE family of churches. TABLE is a family of churches bonded by the desire to do more and be more together than we could apart. We long to see the church come alive, the world renewed and Jesus glorified. In practice that means that everything flows from the foundation of friendship. We share learning, we collaborate on projects and we share resources, both within the family and with the wider church.